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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-12-08
An Old Rebel Crises to Remark.

l
70 read the war papers in the Century
and in most of the Northern journals,
and 10 believe the semi.historical talesi
that are beginning to find their way into!
print in the smaller magazines and theI'
newspapers, one would suppose that i'll
was one of the commonest things in tha
world for the Confederate troops to bel
beaten in battle by their adversaries.
And yet when the few remaining old
soldiers ofthc army of Northern Virginia
gather around their fires, as they do now
and then, and the talk wanders oa-as It
almost always does-to the days when
we went gipsying after Mcdowell, and
Banks, and Milroy, and Mcclellan, and
Burnside, and Hooker, and Meade, and
Grant, and Sheridan, and other heroes of
those times, and we recall the sight Of
the long lines Of fleeing infantry that we
saw at Manassas. and Mcdowell, and
Winchester, and Cross Keys, and Port
Republic, aud Gaines Mill, and Frazier's
Farm, and Seven Pines, and Cedar
Mountain, and Manassas again., and
Fredericksburg, and Charlottesville,
and part of the tins at Gettysburg, and
in the Wilderness, and at Cold flarbor,
and so on, and when we call to mind the
piles of knapsacks, and grub, and blank.
cts, and guns, and horses, and wagons,
and such, that once were theirs and then
were ours, we cannot help thinking that
history is beginning to get herself O little
out of joint and that she needs keying up
little in parts of her frame work.
And we sometimes remember the thin
lines of gray that used to go surging over
the masses of blue and that we're so sci.
dom surged over themselves; that were
so brisk in attack and slow in defeat, and
wonder if truth is never to come out Of =
her we'll. We repsHh1rtbes and we sHHit,
albeit with a feeling of pride that will
not wholly die, even in these piping times
of peace and reconciliation, that at
Sharpsburg (Antietam our wiser, better
brethren call it) our little thirty.three
thousand men in gray did have pretty
tough time in holding their own against
McClellans ninety odd thousand men in
blue. And we have not forgotten how
tremendous battle was waged by our
sixty-eight thousand against Meade's one
hundred thousand. Nor does our mem
ory fail to inform us of Sheridan and his
sixty thousand running over our fifteen
thousand in the valley in 1864.
But when We read the glorious ac. /:
counts that are given to-day of the Prov.
ess and deeds of our whilom multitude {
nous foes, We feel like going little into
particulars for the benefit of the children
that are coming after US. Wewant them
to know that they are come of q race of
soldiers that were seldom defeated, al.
though in many battles they contended
against enormous odds, and, above all,
we want to keep in mind that their
fathers were beaten in war, not by aupe-
rior generalship, or superior soldiership,
but by the sheer force of numbers and
resources. And by nothing else. This
is the history that we teach, and we know
it is the truth.-Norence Times.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-12-08
Church Hospitality.

The statement of the Rev. DR.. Strong,
says the St. Louis Democrat, that
of the eO,oo0,o0O people in this country,
3O,0OO,0OO rarely, if ever. enters Church,
is startling and impressive one, and it
certainly behooves the religious element
of the population to devise measures for
the improvement of such condition of
things. There are various reasons why
the general attendance at places of pub
lie worship is not larger; and chief
among them is the want Of hospitality on
the part of Church officers and members.
The stranger cannot be expected to 60
more than once where he is receized with
chilling formality and indifference. He
has right to assume, under such cir.
cumstances, that he is not wanted, and
he cannot be blamed if his self-respect
keeps him at home when he knows that
treatment of that kind awaits him in the
sanctuary. In theory, all classes of peo.
pie are welcome wherever the Gospel is
preached; but, in fact, most Of our
Churches are governed by the same phi.
losophy of selection and exclusiveness
which prevails in society, and the stran-
ger within the gates is slighted and hu.
inflated accordingly. The right of com.
plant in such case is yalueless, because
no worthy person will consent to exercise
it; and the result is that a great many
people who would be glad to go to Church
are in certain sense actually prevented
from doing so by those whose pleasure it
should be to assist and encourage them
in that respect.
We are not tspeaking particularly Of the
poor and addressed. The discrimination
does not pertain exclusively to such per.
sons; it includes everybody who is
unable for any reason to present social
credentials of an approved sort. The
fact is notorious that the fashionable
Church-and all Churches this day and
time are more or less fashionable-prac-
tically shuts its doors against the public
as rigidly as that same publici excluded
from private drawing-rooms; and the
comforts and blessings of religious ser.
vices are thus made to take on the aspect
of special privileges. 1t is id.e to look
for increased attendance SO long as this
policy stands uncorrected. If there is
any one place in the world above all
others where hospitality should be prac-
ticed as an incessant and surprising duty,
it is in the house of God and the multi.
tude cannot be persuaded to go there in
the absence of that inducement. The
work of enlarging the congregations must
begin and be mainly carried on inside of
the Churches. That is where the worst
of the difficulty lies. The indifference of
those who remain on the outside is due
not half so much to choice upon their
part as to the torbidding atmosphere
which they are sure to encounter if they
venture to enter: and the situation can
be improved only by making people
heartily welcome on religious grounds
alone, instead of dealing with them
strictly according to social rules and con-
siderations.
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= The firm of r. w. Cameron & Col
of New York, who are agents for the
Government of New South Wales, are in
receipt of communication offering re.
ward by that Government of SIPS, 900 to
any American inventor for any process
which will exterminate rabbits. The
latter, which were introduced into Aus.
tralia and New Zealand in 1864, have
increased to such extent as to become
a dangerous pest, and now threaten to
destroy the sheep pasturage of the entire
country. The magnitude of the evil and
the urgency Of the case are indicated by
the amount of the reward, which, ct the
same time, is an expression of confidence
in American ingenuity.
- A cross old bachelor suggests that
births shorld be announced under the
head Of new music.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-12-08
Legalize the Primaries.

The State Legislature will have its
hands full this season undoubtedly, but
it will find time 10 consider the PROPOSE
ton to legalize primary elections, if it
appreciate the danger to the Democratic
party, and, therefore, to good govern.
ment which attends the present system.
The following draft of bill on the
subject is submitted for the consideration
of the Legislature;
a bill to authorize the officers or rep
resentatiYes of any political party to
qualify their agents or managers of pri-
mary elections, and to provide for the
punishment of frauds and false returns
il regard to the same.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in Gener.
al Assembly, and by authority of the
same:
I. That the officers, agents, or repre-
sentatives of any political party, be, and
the same are hereby authorized and en-
powered to qualify the agents aud man
ayers of any primary election ordered to
be held by such political party, by caus.
ing the said agents or managers to be
sworn before an officer, or officers of the
State qualified to administer oaths, to
the fair, true, and faithful conduct of
such election, and that such agents or
manager shall, and will, make true and
faithful returns of such primary elections
so to be held by him.
II. That the agent or manager of any
such primary election, SO qualified as
above, is hereby authorized and empow-
cred to administer an oath to any person,
or persons, offering to vote at such elec-
ton that such person is duly qualified to
vote thereat, under, and by the constitu-
ton and bylaws of the political party
ordering such election.
III. That any violation of the oath
so administered, and taken at any such
primary election, and any false count,
statement, or return shall be regarded as
an offence against the law of the State
now in force in regard to the conduct of
election so far as the same may be ap.
plicable to such primary election, and
shall be punishable on conviction as now
provided in the General Statutes for the
punishment for the violation of election
law.
The foregoing bill conforms generally,
we believe, to the provisions Of law with
the same object in other States There
is nothing in it, in principle, that any
honest Democrat or Republican eau
object to. 1t simply throws around the
primary elections the safeguards which
are provided for State elections, in order
to ensure fair dealing on the part of the
managers of election and of the voters.
There is not complete confidence in the
primary elections as now conducted, and,
whether the want of confidence is we'll
founded or not, there should be no delay
in giving the public the assurance that
those who are chosen at primary elections
have been chosen by an honest majority
of an honest vote. Unless this is accom-.
plished, there will be serious trouble in
the Democratic camp next year.-Neacs
| ouJ Go,,r;er
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-12-08
Cigarettes Killed Him.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24-Dudes, be-
ware Narcotic poisoning from smok-
ing cigarettes was the verdict of the
Coroner's jury to. day upon the death of
Matthew Bird, aged eleven years, of No.
] ,741 Norwood street. The boy died on
Friday night, after having complained
of headache for long while. He lived
with his aunt, Mrs. Bird, and she said in
her evidence that he began 10 smoke
cigarettes some months ago. She tried to
stop him and never permitted him to
smoke them in her presence, but she was
aware that he constantly smoked them
surreptitiously. On Friday Matthew
came home from school and complained
of violent headache. He said he had
fallen, but wss not hurt much. lie
gradually became worse and she called
in physician, who found the child in q
stupor, from which he was unable to
arouse him up to the moment of his death.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-12-08
A Blind Man on Memory.

From some Open Letters OF peculiar
interest to the blind by one of their
number we quote the following from the
November Century: GAS partial compen-
sation, in the midst of his many discour.
agements, the sightless pupil possesses
one vital advantage over his companions.
His memory, accustomed to sieze and
assimilate definitions, and miscellaneous
information at single hearing. acquires
both a marvellous alertness and phe-
nomenal retentive capacity which enable
him to master certain branches of study
with singular ease and rapidity. De-
prived of books and without any very
ready and reliable method of making
notes, he obtains a habit, often envied by
the seeing, of appropriating instantane-
ously anything addressed to his intellect
through his hearing. Hence the proven
bially good memory Of the blind person.
His mind is his memorandum.book
always at hand and always open.
"To the present writer, who never re-
members having lesson in, anything
read over to him more than twice, moth
ing is more amusing than room full of
school children, with fingers crammed in
their ears, buzziDg over lesson OF three
pages for the fifteenth time. Equally
incomprehensible is it to see a man
making note of single address, or
lady referring to a shopping-lis.. Such
observations force one to the conclusion
that the art of writing, invaluable as it
is, has been disastrous to the human
memory. People have grown so to rely
on piece of white paper covered with
black scratches, that if this be lost or
misplaced, they are reduced almost to
the condition of creatures without intel
lect.
$50 marked is the advantage Of the
blind in this respect as almost to atone
for their extra difficulties in others; that
is, the sightless pupil will acquire
scientific and philosophical studies with
a rapidity which will counterbalance the
greater amount of time demanded BY his
less facile methods Of writing out exercises
in linguistic and ciphering in mathemat-
ical branches; so that in taking the
regular course at academy or university,
he will require, all in all, neither more
time nor more labor than the average
student.
ssOf not less value in after life is this
extraordinarily trained and developed
memory. It enables the blind to derive
from lectures, conversation and general
reading ten times the benefit of others,
on whose minds single mention of facts
and thoughts makes little or no impres.
sion.
"Thus the law Of compensation is seen
working in all things, making good on
one hand, approximately at least, what
is wanting on the other; not by the
special mysterious interference of Prov.
idence or other power with nataral con.
ditioDs and processes, for the benefit Of
the Individual, as many claim, but the
inevitable sequence Of cause and effect,
BY which senses and faculties become,
through unusual training, abnorraally
developed and their value radically en-.
bancedD
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-12-08
Seeing a Man Hanged.

There are lots of people who want to
see an execution simply for the purpose
of being able to boast of it afterward.
With such have no sympathy whatever.
/ have never seen but one man hanged,
and if can help it I will never see
another. 1t happened several years ago
and have never forgotten my sensations.
I experienced nothing but gentle feel
ing of curiosity until the condemned
man was led into the Jail yard. AS he
ascended the steps of the gallows I felt
that indescribable sinkinein the region
of the stomach which lkes one think
there is nothing solid "a his anatomy
below the collar bone. I tried to keep
from observing his faltering steps and
pallid looks, but there seemed to be a
magnet which drew my eyes to his fear
stricken countenance with irresistible
force.
AS the !:not was finally adjusted |
turned mysgaze away and noticed that
the rest of the spectators looked about
as frightened as the man about to die.
I couldn't keep my gaze concentrated
upon any one object, but it royed over
the assembly, and 6nally-though tried
to prevent it from doing so-rested fair
and square upon the face Of the con-
demned man. His eyes met mine, and
there was an appealing look in them
that went to my heart and made me feel
like murderer myself. After that I
could no more look away than I could
Jump over the court house. When the
drop fell I sank to the ground in dead
faint. 1t was horrible sensation, I can
assure you, and I wouldn't 60 through it
again for the world.-Chicago Herald.
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= Young girls, if you desire 70 keep
your beau on string, don't bend him too
much. Remember, that the strongest
bow once broken cannot be restrung.
ct is easy TO make light Of pound
of candles,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-12-08

- Geo. Rawland has been lodged in
jail at Walhalla to serve thirty days
sentence, at hard labor, fer beating his
mother.in. law on last Sunday night with
large family Bible.
= When does man have 10 keep his
word? When no one will take it.
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Debtors and Creditors.

The common feeling respecting debtors
and creditors is often erroneous, and, as
is common with fallacies, it affects with
double force the young and inexperienc-
ed. Debtors are represented in the or
dinary language of large portion of
society as set of amiable, unfortunate,
and most interesting persons. Creditors,
on the other hand, are represented as
execrable wretehes, with darkness of
heart that would disgrace the execution.
er.
Tie debtor may be an amiable and
interesting person, for we often find these
characteristics united in him; but the
young must beware how they set down
debtors, as class, es purely estimable
and entitled to sympathy, while they at
the same time look upon creditors as only
ruthless prosecutors.
Creditors are not invariably rich, as
one might suppose them to be. They are
more frequently poor, industrious per.
sons, who, in losing money by their dep
tors, are apt TO be made debtors them.
selves, and thereby ruined. In fact, the
case stands generally thus:-A idle or
extravagent person procures the means
of gratifying his bad appctites, and is
enabled to show himself off as very fine
fellow, at the expense of an honest man,
who confines himself constantly to his
business and denies himself almost every
indulgence, in order that he may be able
to pay every one to whom he is indebted.
Now, if young people will bring their na-
tural, generous feelings to bear upon this
point, they will see that the debtor, and
not the creditor, is at falt. And they may
be assured, that where creditors show q
severity to their debtors, it is generally
either merited by the latter, or is dictated
by justifable consideration Of danger
into which creditors are thrown by the
non. payment of the money which is due
them.-Ncau York Ledger,
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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-12-08

When does son not take after his
father? When his father leaves him
nothing to take.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-12-08

Love may make the world 60 round,
but it seldom makes pair of rival lovers
act on the square.
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"A river is like some men. 1t sell
lom gets out of its bed till it is dry.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-11-06
The Police View,

CHICAGO, Nov. 5.-NOw that there
seems to be stampede in the direction
of the Communication of the sentence of
the convicted anarchists, it may be we'll
to mention what the effect of it has al
ready been in very important section
of the communicable police force. AL
ready a feeling akin to dismay has
arisen among the blue-cOats. A veteran
officer voiced the general sentiment of
the force this morning, when he said:
If these men are allowed to triumph over
the law through the meddlesome interven-
ton of the people, to save whose lives and
property we risked our own on that awful
night of May 4, you will find that the police
force of Chicago will never fight another
battle with Chicago anarchists. 1t is all very
well to say it is a terrible thing to take seven
human lives, but l say it is not more terrible
than the way in which they took the
lives of seven of our boys and MANNED
dozens of them that May evening.
But 1 suppose the life of police officer is as
nothing wnen weighed against that of an
anarchist. l suppose it is our duty TO be
receive no protection from that community.
l say no protection, for the only pro-
lection we can receive is the fitting
punishment of these offenders whom
we have brought to bay. 1t is all right
for judges to say that these men will
preach their doctrines more eloquently dead
than alive, but tell you if they escape the
gsllows the doctrines of anarchy will be
preached so eloquently that those who took
part in obtaining the commutalion will live
10 rue the day they did so. For our part the
police of Chicago will be more cautious in
risking their lives and facing anarchist bombs
than they were a year ago last May.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-11-06
THEY ARE SORRY.
Spies, Schwab and Fielden Write
Letter to the Governor.

CHICAGO, Nov. 5.-An extraordinary
communication signed by Spies, Schwab
and Fielden, disavOwing "aggreSSive
force" and deplOring the loss of life at
the Haymarket, was given out tonight
for publication. 1t is addressed to Gov.
Oglesby, and is to be forwarded to him
with the formal petition for clemency.
The guarded wording of the document
is as notable as its matter. particularly
as this is the first expression of the kind
any of the condemned anarchists have
made. Parsons, it is understood, ac-
quiesces in its contents, and will address
a separate letter of his own to the gov
ernor embOdying the same ideas. Lingg,
Engel and Fischer SteadfaStly refuse,
however, to go on record with any such
declaration. The following is the letter
in full:
Chicago, Nov. 3, 1897. Gov. Richard
Oglesby. Springfield Ill. Sir: In order that
the truth may be known by you and the pub
lie you represent, We desire to state that We
never advocated the use of force except i'll
case of Self-defense. To accuse us of having
attempted to overthrow law and government
on May 4, 1886, or at any other time is as
false as it is absurd. Whatever we said or
did was said and done publicly. We have
never conspired or plotted to commit an un-
lawful act. While we attacked the present
and exposed their iniquities, we have never
consciously broken any laws. So far from
having planned the killing of anybody at the
Haymarket or anywhere else, the very object
of the meeting was to protest against the
commission of murder. We believe it to be
our duty as friends of labor and liberty TO op-
pose any other use of force than in the neces-
sary defense of sacred rights against unlaw
full attacks. All our efforts have been in the
direction of elevating mankind, and to re-
move as much as possible the cause of crime
i'll society. Our labor was unselfish; no mo-
tiyes of personal gain or ambition prompted
lis. Thousands and thousands will bear tes-
timony to this. We have erred at times in
our judgment-yes, we may have loved man.
kind not wisely, but too we'll" If in the ex-
element of propagating our views we were
led into expressions which caused working
men to think that aggressive force was a
proper instrument of reform, we regret it. We
deplore the loss of life at the HaymarEet, as
at MeCormicks, at East st. Louis and at the
Chicago stock yards. Very respectfully,
A. SPIES,
MICHAEL SCHwAB,
SAMUEL FIELDEN.